HOUSTON, June 25 (Xinhua) -- U.S. crude oil refinery inputs averaged 17 million barrels per day (b/d) during the week ending June 20, 125,000 b/d more than the previous week's average, according to the weekly report issued by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) on Wednesday.

Refineries operated at 94.7 percent of their operable capacity last week, said the Weekly Petroleum Data Report.

Gasoline production remained flat last week, averaging 10.1 million b/d, while distillate fuel production shrank by 185,000 b/d, averaging 4.8 million b/d.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories, excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, dropped by 5.8 million barrels from the previous week to 415.1 million barrels, about 11 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.

Total motor gasoline inventories went down by 2.1 million barrels last week, about 3 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.

Both finished gasoline inventories and blending components inventories fell last week.

Distillate fuel inventories dropped by 4.1 million barrels last week, around 20 percent below the five-year average for this time of year.

Propane/propylene inventories went up by 5.1 million barrels last week, 9 percent above the five-year average for this time of year.

Total commercial petroleum inventories shrank by 4.2 million barrels last week.

Total products supplied over the last four-week period averaged 20 million b/d, down by 1.6 percent from the same period last year.

Over the past four weeks, motor gasoline product supplied averaged 9.1 million b/d, up by 0.2 percent from the same period last year.

Distillate fuel product supplied averaged 3.5 million b/d over the past four weeks, down by 3.2 percent from the same period last year.

Jet fuel product supplied was up 4.3 percent compared with the same four-week period last year. ■